Lower Intermediate Lessons (S3)
Learn to speak Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! With the last two lessons, you’ve learned to speak Japanese in the passive voice. This final lesson of the three part series puts the finishing touches on your excellent new abilities! Quite often, passive Japanese sentences are formed from active sentences. For example, “Kenji stole Daichi’s bag” becomes “Daichi had his bag stolen by Kenjo.” It’s critical that you understand how to take an active sentence and turn it into the passive voice. The good news is, it’s easy to do! That’s exactly what you’ll learn in this lower intermediate Japanese lesson. Discover how o –suru becomes o–sareru when you speak in the passive voice. And, you’ll find so many helpful examples that you’re sure to feel completely comfortable speaking Japanese in the passive voice thanks to this JapanesePod101.com lesson!
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! In the last lesson, you mastered the basics of speaking in the passive voice. This skill is critical to speaking natural-sounding Japanese, so this lesson delves a bit deeper. Often, Japanese sentences are formed so that the person receiving an action is the subject of the sentence. One example is, “I was sent an email from Kanoko.” You’ll find that many Japanese sentences sound more natural in the passive voice. So, to speak Japanese well, you must be a master of the passive voice. In this lower intermediate Japanese lesson, learn even more about speaking Japanese in the passive voice. Discover how watashi (receiver of action) becomes the subject in Japanese passive sentences. And, learn when to use the passive voice along with vocabulary words to make your passive Japanese sound like second nature. This is one awesome JapanesePod101.com lesson!
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Without even realizing it, you speak in the passive voice all the time. Instead of saying, “My mother yelled at me,” you might say, “I was yelled at by my mother.” The passive voice is even more common in Japanese. So, it’s a necessary part of speaking Japanese like a natural. In this lower intermediate Japanese lesson, learn to form Japanese sentences in the passive voice by simply making the direct object the subject. Using simple charts, this Japanese lesson shows you how to switch word orders in common sentence patterns to form the passive voice. You’ll also discover the right times to speak this way and how the Japanese word reru fits in. The passive voice is an easy way to speak politely in Japanese, so this JapanesePod101.com lesson is one you don’t want to miss!
Learn Japanese With JapanesePod101.com! One of the most common sentences we use talks about being “without.” Here are some examples: “I stayed up all night without going to bed,” and “She said she would marry him without even meeting him in person!” If you want to speak Japanese fluently, you must use sentences that include the word “without.” This important lower intermediate lesson introduces you to –zu ni (without doing something). You’ll learn to use this phrase in a number of ways to form sentences that are part of almost all Japanese conversations. As an added bonus, find a number of Japanese vocabulary words and example sentences that you can weave into your own Japanese. This JapanesePod101.com lesson makes learning an especially important Japanese phrase easy and fun!
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Some things never change. And, you need to be able to talk about them. What if you want to say something like, “I’ve been in bed all day,” or “Keep going in this direction”? Both of these examples refer to situations that remain unchanged. As you can imagine, it is absolutely necessary that you can say things like this in Japanese if you want to communicate clearly. This lower intermediate lesson is designed to make it easy for you to master sentences that talk about situations or things that stay the same. Learn to use the word mama (things or situations that remain unchanged) and the Japanese sentence structures that allow you to use it properly. You’ll also find all kinds of helpful examples and ways to make mama one of the Japanese words you’ll use all the time.
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Category: Lower Intermediate Lessons (S3) | 1 Comment »
Grammar: o –sareru | Function: passive voice | Topic: friends | Politeness Level: casual
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